The real headline: crypto crook (who pleaded guilty to breaking US money laundering rules) plans to try and buy UK politics www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

Is the absurd con of the ‘master deal maker’ finally about to fail? Do we finally understand that in fact he is a sort of reverse version of Midas who manages to turn everything he touches into shit, not gold?

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” These are the words of the president of the United States, today. The president speaks genocide. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment. snyder.substack.com/p/the-presid...

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

Hegseth just fired the Army Chief Gen Randy George. Immediately. Gen George the most competent and experienced combat leaders I have ever encountered. Courage. Integrity. Takes care of soldiers. A government of gangsters.

“Certainly compared to a younger generation today” 🖕

Trump isn’t making any sense and the idiots in his cabinet are totally out of their depth. They’ve made a gigantic mess and have no idea how to get out of it. I’m so tired of the media parsing every nonsense statement, divining meaning from gibberish. There’s no strategy, its lies and incompetence.

Trump can't declare bankruptcy on the Iran war. He can't get his dad to bail him out. There's no one to sue. His usual lies and bluster aren't working. Iran isn't Venezuela. The global energy market isn't something he can bully. This has already spun out of control. I wrote about the war in @ms.now.

Iran is forcing the US to either escalate, including full invasion, or accept a deal far worse than it had on the table a fortnight ago. This war could turn into Iraq x Vietnam in terms of US strategic defeat. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p... > there is so much to think about in this. Read.

www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-cabi... > reading this was cathartic. “we have never seen quite the collection of clowns, cranks, and crooks that Trump has assembled.”

Trump's invasion is the most unpopular war in modern US history. That matters. It shows the public is not reflexively pro war even at moments of intense propaganda bombardment. It's really tanking with groups Trump made inroads among. Look at the numbers below! 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2076...

Trump’s unlawful war is already extraordinarily unpopular with Americans. “[pollster] Della Volpe told me he just conducted over 50 interviews with men of ages 19 to 29…they are registering “strong opposition” and dismay with Trump over the war”. Good.

New @trusselluk.bsky.social stats out today: 2.6 million emergency food parcels in 2025 - 1 every 12 seconds. We're seeing really deep and prolonged hardship, especially for families. As well as for disabled people and fast growing numbers of pensioners. www.trussell.org.uk/news-and-res...

“Short term excursion”, “special military operation”, tomayto tomahto

Not *can*, no other President *would* do this shit

Unbelievable.

Fertilizer

A reminder that Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch and the entire Conservative-supporting press have spent the past week lambasting Keir Starmer for not joining the Iran war. Here's what has happened since then to public opinion

Revealing and disturbing profile of the man in charge of operation epic fury. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Not wilting in the face of Trump’s bullying and getting sucked into his unlawful war could be a rare issue that actually unites Brits from across the political spectrum. Which party is going to realise this first?

Notable that the @togetheralliance.bsky.social and #NoKings protests will be the same day, 28 March. Will the media pay attention or be too focused on missiles, bombs and Trump’s latest outrage to cover them?

This horrible war has to stop. I’m not much of a person of faith but this Easter that is what I will be praying for.

Very interesting from @polphilpod.bsky.social. "It's not as if fascism ever went away...Fascists have fought to undermine conservatism from within...Fascists took elite conservatives' measure nicely...The future will belong either to liberals or fascists." www.liberalcurrents.com/it-wasnt-fas...

In the same sentence Badenoch derides ‘Ed Miliband’s net zero fantasy projects’ then says spikes in oil price spike due to war will hit people’s pocketbooks. It should be obvious that boosting green energy to reduce dependence on Gulf fossil fuels is strategically important for the UK and Europe.

Buttigieg: You’ve got money from the Middle East going into the Trump family crypto fund while you have Americans going to the Middle East for Donald Trump’s war.

"...war in Iran is very unpopular. Not merely negative-number ... but worst-ever-support-for-war-when-it-started unpopular. With just 38% of Americans in favor, support for bombing Iran is lower than retrospective support for the war in Iraq was in 2014." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-us-i...

What

In the last two days the GOP now has two more Senate vacancies & two more House vacancies. And both House vacancies & one of the Senate vacancies may create very competitive races.

From Trump to Noem to Hegseth and beyond, we are being governed by a party of perverts who are set on making their own psychosexual derangements into policy www.liberalcurrents.com/pervert-poli...

Labour is losing voters to progressive parties disproportionately. And they are not mainly "lanyard" professional or working classes, the oppositional forces of Blue Labour and right discourse. It's squeezed millennials in service careers. Which our politics ignores.

I just can’t

When the immigration debate is framed as wanting to sift out ‘those who contribute and follow the rules’ this is an inherently false frame. It presupposes that loads of immigrants don’t contribute, don’t follow the rules, and are freeloaders. This is not true or representative of the facts.

The Home Office consultation on Earned Settlement closed just a matter of weeks ago. Have they even finished the analysis before today’s announcement by the Home Secretary? Or have the respondents just totally wasted their time?

Wait what? I thought it wasnt a war?

Is “cache-misere” some kind of working class rhyming slang I’m not familiar with or

A barely competent comms director should be able to turn ‘Labour values’ into effective messaging and talking points that both unites the party and speaks to the public about their reality. It’s not rocket science, yet it seems to have utterly eluded a series of no doubt very highly paid ‘experts’

Florida man strikes again

Ah I see. Maybe you should call it a ‘special military operation’? I remember hearing that phrase somewhere.

do words mean things ?

Wut

Nixon: Vietnam 1969 -73: including carpet bombing the North & Cambodia. Reagan: Grenada, Libya, Nicaragua. GHW Bush: Panama, Gulf War. GW Bush: Afghanistan, Iraq. Trump: Venezuela, Iran. Every major US war/intervention in my lifetime apart from Kosovo & Libya 2012 has started under a Republican.

This guy sounds like he’s acting in one of those super low budget war flix where you’ve never heard of any of the actors. I don’t think he understands the dangerous implications of what he’s saying. So the new rules, to replace the ‘stupid rules’, are kill or be killed Pete?

Prof. Robert Pape: "I have studied every air campaign since WWI... I've modelled the bombing of Fordow and regime change in Iran for 20 years... We are now in the grip of the escalation trap... This has never worked in over 100 years... Trump is up against the weight of history".

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Democrats MUST insist on a vote on an Authorization of Military Force (an AUMF) for Trump’s war in Iran. My friend @kaine.senate.gov is leading the charge on a War Powers Resolution (WPR) that I support. But it's not a substitute for an AUMF. 1/ A 🧵on the difference. It's important.

Inside the plan to kill Ali Khamenei - remarkable reporting here by Mehul Srivastava and James Shotter. ie "Nearly all the traffic cameras in Tehran had been hacked for years, their images encrypted and transmitted to servers in Tel Aviv and southern Israel." www.ft.com/content/bf99...

By ‘disarray’ you mean 90% of Reps/Sens are against an illegal war and a handful of the usual suspects are going to get primaried?

President Donald Trump’s administration is expending a significant proportion of America’s best firepower – at a speed that may take the country’s industrial base years to replenish and leave American power diminished for other wartime scenarios.

The ‘impact economy’ is a confusing and unhelpful phrase without a clear definition, argues Andrew Purkis